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</div> <!-- /.easy_social_box --><div class="field field-name-body field-type-text-with-summary field-label-hidden"><div class="field-items"><div class="field-item even" property="content:encoded"> <p>Ubunutu 11.04 Natty Narwhal is <a href="http://www.ubuntu.com/" title="Ubuntu">released</a>, and there's something in it for RightScale users!</p><p><img alt="" class="alignright" src="http://www.rightscale.com/images/partners/logo_canonical.png" style="margin-left: 3px; margin-right: 3px; width: 150px; height: 19px; float: right;" title="Canonical RightScale Partner"> We've been working with <a href="http://www.rightscale.com/partners/isv/canonical.php" title="Canonical RightScale Partner">our partners at Canonical</a> to make it possible to use Ubuntu AMIs out of the box with RightScale. This means you can start playing with Natty Narwhal 11.04 in RightScale today!</p><p>How does it work? The method was pioneered by <a href="http://alestic.com/2009/06/ec2-user-data-scripts" title="Eric Hammond">Eric Hammond</a>, who helps maintain <a href="http://alestic.com/2011/04/ec2-ubuntu-natty" title="Ubuntu Natty on EC2">Ubuntu and Debian AMIs for EC2</a> along with Scott Moser. An AMI is setup to fetch the <a href="http://docs.amazonwebservices.com/AWSEC2/latest/UserGuide/index.html?AESDG-chapter-instancedata.html" title="AWS EC2 User-Data">user-data</a> when an EC2 instance launches, and execute any scripts delineated by a special format. Canonical has incorporated this into the Ubuntu releases as their <a href="https://launchpad.net/ubuntu/+source/cloud-init" title="Canonical Ubuntu Cloud-Init">cloud-init software</a>.</p><p>In the latest Natty Narwhal 11.04 release, RightScale's RightLink software is now compatible with the Canonical cloud-init. Furthermore, Canonical's officially supported AMIs for Natty Narwhal 11.04 are capable of configuring RightLink automatically.</p><p>We've created the following MultiCloud Images supporting all AWS regions:</p><ul><li><a href="http://www.rightscale.com/library/multi_cloud_images/RightImage_OSS_Ubuntu_11-04_i3/19240">RightImage_OSS_Ubuntu_11.04_i386_v5.6.28</a></li><li><a href="http://www.rightscale.com/library/multi_cloud_images/RightImage_OSS_Ubuntu_11-04_x6/19239">RightImage_OSS_Ubuntu_11.04_x64_v5.6.28</a></li><li><a href="http://www.rightscale.com/library/multi_cloud_images/RightImage_OSS_Ubuntu_11-04_i3/19243">RightImage_OSS_Ubuntu_11.04_i386_v5.6.28_EBS</a></li><li><a href="http://www.rightscale.com/library/multi_cloud_images/RightImage_OSS_Ubuntu_11-04_x6/19242">RightImage_OSS_Ubuntu_11.04_x64_v5.6.28_EBS</a></li><li><a href="http://www.rightscale.com/library/multi_cloud_images/RightImage_OSS_Ubuntu_11-04_x6/19241">RightImage_OSS_Ubuntu_11.04_x64_v5.6.28_HVM</a></li></ul><p>We're sure this will benefit Ubuntu customers and partners, and we hope this method becomes more widely adopted by other virtual machine image creators.</p><p>Our hats are off to the Ubuntu community for its continued advances in the cloud.</p> </div></div></div>Fri, 29 Apr 2011 21:25:56 +0000Darryl Eaton105 at http://www.rightscale.com/bloghttp://www.rightscale.com/blog/rightscale-news/rightscale-ready-ubuntu-1104-amazon-amis#commentsRightScale Release: 25 ServerTemplates across 66 RightImageshttp://www.rightscale.com/blog/rightscale-news/rightscale-release-25-servertemplates-across-66-rightimages
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</div> <!-- /.easy_social_box --><div class="field field-name-body field-type-text-with-summary field-label-hidden"><div class="field-items"><div class="field-item even" property="content:encoded"> <p>Is it Christmas? It seems the RightScale elves have been busy. Luckily for you, many of our elves have Ph.D.s or master's degrees in computer science - or just many years behind a Unix prompt. Lucky for us, they don't look like elves. <em>Let's see what's under the tree...</em></p><h3>New Database Managers</h3><p><a href="/sites/default/files/2011/03/mysql1.gif"><img alt="" class="alignright size-thumbnail wp-image-697" src="/blog/sites/default/files/2011/03/mysql1.gif?w=150" style="width: 120px; height: 66px; float: right;" title="mysql"></a>Our <a href="http://www.rightscale.com/library/server_templates/All?search%5Badvanced_search%5D=&amp;search%5Bfilter_value%5D=Database+Manager+with+MySQL&amp;x=18&amp;y=16&amp;search%5Bfilter_type%5D=title&amp;search%5Bprice%5D=&amp;search%5Border%5D=date_desc" title="MySQL Cloud Database Manager">Database Manager for MySQL</a> is one of our most popular <a href="http://www.rightscale.com/products/configuration-framework.php">ServerTemplates</a>, serving as the rock-solid foundation of many of our customer's deployments. With this release, we've expanded our MySQL 5.1 manager to support CentOS as well as Ubuntu. <a href="/sites/default/files/2011/03/sql_server_2008_logo.png"><img alt="Microsoft SQL Server 2008" class="alignright size-thumbnail wp-image-698" src="/blog/sites/default/files/2011/03/sql_server_2008_logo.png?w=150" style="width: 120px; height: 74px; float: right;" title="sql_server_2008_logo"></a></p><p>We're also happy to bring this same foundation to our Microsoft Windows customers, with our new <a href="http://www.rightscale.com/library/server_templates/All?search%5Badvanced_search%5D=&amp;search%5Bfilter_value%5D=Database+Manager+with+MS+SQL+Server&amp;x=20&amp;y=7&amp;search%5Bfilter_type%5D=title&amp;search%5Bprice%5D=&amp;search%5Border%5D=date_desc" title="Microsoft SQL Server Cloud Database Manager">Database Manager for MS SQL Server</a>. This new ServerTemplate automates the provisioning and operation of SQL Server, and includes scheduled backups, assisted restoration, and database monitoring. The template supports both SQL Server 2005 on Windows 2003 and SQL Server 2008 on Windows 2008.</p><h3>Windows ServerTemplates on Rackspace</h3><p>We have been working closely with Rackspace to expand our support to include ServerTemplates. We're making Windows ServerTemplates available first. Our <a href="http://www.rightscale.com/library/server_templates/All?search%5Badvanced_search%5D=&amp;search%5Bfilter_value%5D=Base+ServerTemplate+for+Windows&amp;x=0&amp;y=0&amp;search%5Bfilter_type%5D=title&amp;search%5Bprice%5D=&amp;search%5Border%5D=date_desc" title="RightScale Windows ServerTemplate">Base ServerTemplate for Windows</a> includes RightImages for both AWS and Rackspace and can be launched on either cloud. This is a <em>public beta</em>, and we are very interested in your feedback - please let your account representative know if you plan to experiment with Windows on Rackspace.</p><p><a href="/sites/default/files/2011/03/amazon_and_rackspace_servertemplate.png"><img alt="Amazon and Rackspace RightScale Windows ServerTemplate" class="media-image aligncenter size-full wp-image-703" height="132" style="" title="amazon_and_rackspace_servertemplate" width="480" typeof="foaf:Image" src="http://www.rightscale.com/blog/sites/default/files/styles/large/public/2011/03/amazon_and_rackspace_servertemplate_0.png?itok=GUUkBjpB" /></a></p><h3>Base and LAMP ServerTemplates for CloudStack</h3><p>New CentOS 5.4 RightImages have been released for CloudStack private cloud customers. We have also released a&nbsp;<a href="http://www.rightscale.com/library/server_templates/LAMP-All-In-One-with-MySQL-5-0/18248">LAMP All-In-One</a> ServerTemplate based on these images. The LAMP template uploads a backup of the database to either AWS S3 or Rackspace CloudFiles. Enterprise customers can contact their account representative for access to these images.</p><h3>RightImages and ServerTemplates for EC2 AP-Tokyo</h3><p><a href="http://blog.rightscale.com/2011/03/02/rightscale-global-japan/">Following our Dashboard support</a> for the new region, we have released a full set of RightImages (Ubuntu and CentOS) and ServerTemplates (Database Manager for MySQL, HAProxy Load Balancer, App Servers for PHP/Rails/Tomcat, and more) for EC2 AP-Tokyo.</p><h3>New Free All-In-One Developer ServerTemplates</h3><p>Developer templates are designed for you to quickly plug in your code and database and get up and running on the cloud with a single all-in-one server.</p><ul><li><a href="http://www.rightscale.com/library/server_templates/All?search%5Badvanced_search%5D=&amp;search%5Bfilter_value%5D=LAMP+All-In-One+with+MySQL+5&amp;x=0&amp;y=0&amp;search%5Bfilter_type%5D=title&amp;search%5Bprice%5D=&amp;search%5Border%5D=date_desc">LAMP All-In-One</a> with&nbsp;MySQL 5.0 or 5.1</li><li><a href="LAMP All-In-One Wordpress">Wordpress All-In-One</a> example</li><li><a href="http://www.rightscale.com/library/server_templates/All?search%5Badvanced_search%5D=&amp;search%5Bfilter_value%5D=Rails+AIO+Developer+with+Nginx&amp;x=0&amp;y=0&amp;search%5Bfilter_type%5D=title&amp;search%5Bprice%5D=&amp;search%5Border%5D=date_desc">Rails All-In-One</a> with Nginx and Passenger</li><li><a href="http://www.rightscale.com/library/server_templates/All?search%5Badvanced_search%5D=&amp;search%5Bfilter_value%5D=Rails+All-In-One+Mephisto&amp;x=0&amp;y=0&amp;search%5Bfilter_type%5D=title&amp;search%5Bprice%5D=&amp;search%5Border%5D=date_desc">Mephisto All-In-One</a> example</li></ul><h3>Our First Compatibility Release</h3><p>Our first <a href="http://support.rightscale.com/12-Guides/RightScale_Methodologies/Compatibility_Release" title="RightScale Compatibility Release">Compatibility Release</a>&nbsp;is now generally available (GA). What is a compatibility release? Let's break it down to two words: <em>compatible</em> and <em>release</em>. We test and&nbsp;<em>release</em> all of our most popular ServerTemplates and RightImages at the same time with the same <a href="http://support.rightscale.com/12-Guides/RightScale_Methodologies/Freezing_Software_Repositories" title="RightScale Frozen Repositories">software repository date</a>. This helps ensure that RightScripts developed for one template and operating system should be <em>compatible</em> with other templates and operating systems that are also part of the release.<a href="/sites/default/files/2011/03/rightscale-library-servertemplates-compatible.png" style="line-height: 1.538em;"><img alt="" class="media-image alignright size-full wp-image-678" height="143" style="width: 204px; height: 143px; float: right;" title="RightScale Library ServerTemplates Compatible" width="204" typeof="foaf:Image" src="http://www.rightscale.com/blog/sites/default/files/styles/large/public/2011/03/rightscale-library-servertemplates-compatible_0.png?itok=A0KoyfmJ" /></a></p><p>Why did we do this? We found that customers mixed and matched pieces from our ServerTemplates to create their own. Great! But without guaranteeing the same software repository or operating system version, their mileage varied. Now customers and partners can develop within a compatibility release, and take full advantage of all of the pre-built configurations we offer. You can see all of the ServerTemplates in the 11H1 Compatibility Release <a href="http://www.rightscale.com/library/server_templates/11H1%20Compatible" title="RightScale Compatibility Release">in the Library</a>. (Hint to publishers: If you build a template within the Compatibility Release, be sure to add the "11H1 Compatible" category.)</p><h3>New Base ServerTemplates</h3><p>It's actually easy for you to get most of the benefits of the compatibility release without even thinking about it. The trick is to start with one of our <a href="http://www.rightscale.com/library/server_templates/All?search%5Badvanced_search%5D=&amp;search%5Bfilter_value%5D=base+servertemplate&amp;x=0&amp;y=0&amp;search%5Bfilter_type%5D=title&amp;search%5Bprice%5D=&amp;search%5Border%5D=date_desc">Base ServerTemplates</a> for any custom ServerTemplate development. You'll automatically get monitoring, the latest production RightImages, and the ability to pull compatible scripts from any related&nbsp;Compatibility&nbsp;Release templates.</p><p><em>And finally, while it was hard to wrap...</em></p><h3>RightScale Experience and Expertise in the Cloud</h3><p>About a month ago, a few of our customers started reporting sudden crashes of Ubuntu servers. RightScale worked closely with Canonical to <a href="https://bugs.launchpad.net/ubuntu/+source/linux-ec2/+bug/708920">identify the obscure kernel bug</a> and brainstorm potential solutions.&nbsp;We then ran heavy tests on the Ubuntu 10.04 release with a variety of other kernels. <em>Heavy testing</em> in RightScale equates to multiple automated runs of hundreds of servers&nbsp;performing&nbsp;a variety of different workloads (database, load balancer, application server, etc.). We finally found a kernel that worked, and it is included with the latest Ubuntu RightImages. With our current scale, we have the <a href="http://www.rightscale.com/news_events/press_releases/2011/rightscale-customers-expand-cloud-workloads.php">visibility</a> and <a href="http://www.rightscale.com/partners/">partnerships</a> to identify and solve major cloud issues. We're happy to package this expertise up for all of our customers as we continue to invest in the future of cloud computing.</p><p><em>Enjoy the new toys!</em></p><p>For a complete description of what was released, visit the <a href="http://support.rightscale.com/18-Release_Notes/ServerTemplates_and_RightImages/Current">Current Release Notes for ServerTemplates and MultiCloud Images</a>.</p> </div></div></div>Tue, 29 Mar 2011 13:00:36 +0000Darryl Eaton100 at http://www.rightscale.com/bloghttp://www.rightscale.com/blog/rightscale-news/rightscale-release-25-servertemplates-across-66-rightimages#commentsRightScale + Ubuntu + Eucalyptus = Cloud in a Boxhttp://www.rightscale.com/blog/cloud-industry-insights/rightscale-ubuntu-eucalyptus-cloud-box
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</div> <!-- /.easy_social_box --><div class="field field-name-body field-type-text-with-summary field-label-hidden"><div class="field-items"><div class="field-item even" property="content:encoded"> <p>Want a cloud in a box? Then start requisitioning a couple of machines now so you're ready on Thursday to load up Ubuntu 9.04, install Eucalyptus, and follow the prompt to register your cloud with RightScale. And best of all, it's all free - free open source software and access to a free RightScale service account.</p><p>We're finally getting close to the release of Ubuntu 9.04, which includes the technology preview for the Ubuntu Enterprise Cloud powered by Eucalyptus. We've been working closely with both Canonical and the Eucalyptus team to ensure that all the cloud pieces work together as seamlessly as possible.</p><p>To make it easy for you to set up your private cloud, we integrated the RightScale registration into the Eucalyptus installation. This means that as you plod along installing and configuring your Eucalyptus cloud controller, you'll have the option to register your new cloud with RightScale by simply following a link on the configuration web page. It could hardly be any simpler.</p><p>What we're supporting at the Ubuntu 9.04 release is to register your Eucalyptus cloud with RightScale and access it within your RightScale free or paid account right alongside Amazon EC2. You can invite friends to access your cloud so they can launch their own cloud servers on your cloud! We will also provide a RightImage that you can download to your cloud so you have a clean and small machine image to work with. Unfortunately, we won't have support for ServerTemplates and automation available at the initial release. We still have a number of things to hook up on our end to make that happen, but we'll release it as soon as it's ready. At that point, you'll be able to operate in your own cloud just as you do on EC2.</p><p>But we're by no means forgetting about Amazon EC2! We've been working with Canonical to ensure that the official Ubuntu 9.04 Amazon Machine Images (AMI) work out of the box with RightScale. This means that if you launch one of the 9.04 AMIs from the RightScale dashboard then all the RightScale goodness will work: ServerTemplates, monitoring, automation, etc. If you launch the same AMI using the API or from a different console, then they'll work as if RightScale didn't exist. The inclusion of the RightScale startup script in the Ubuntu AMI means that we'll be able to continue ramping up our Ubuntu support and we won't have to create a 9.04 image ourselves. In the future, as we roll out new versions of our configuration management and automation, we'll probably release new Ubuntu RightImages ourselves, but we'll cross that bridge when the time comes. In the meantime, enjoy Ubuntu 9.04 and RightScale seamlessly on Amazon EC2!</p> </div></div></div>Mon, 20 Apr 2009 15:17:04 +0000Thorsten von Eicken67 at http://www.rightscale.com/bloghttp://www.rightscale.com/blog/cloud-industry-insights/rightscale-ubuntu-eucalyptus-cloud-box#commentsRightScale Supports Ubuntu on Amazon EC2http://www.rightscale.com/blog/rightscale-news/rightscale-supports-ubuntu-amazon-ec2
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</div> <!-- /.easy_social_box --><div class="field field-name-body field-type-text-with-summary field-label-hidden"><div class="field-items"><div class="field-item even" property="content:encoded"> <p>We've been working on an Ubuntu RightImage for a while now, and it's now available as `RightImage Ubuntu7.04V1_14_2` with AMI ID ami-f3cc299a and location `rightscale_images/Ubuntu7.04_V1_14_2`.</p><p>This is our first Ubuntu public image, so we hope we covered all bases, but we're eager to hear whether everything works as expected. As always the <a href="https://s3.amazonaws.com/rightscale_scripts/Ubuntu7.04V1_14_2Install.sh" target="_blank">script </a>to create the image is also available. To run the script, launch an Ubuntu image with working bundling code and run through the steps.</p><p>A little background on RightImages for those of you not familiar with what we're doing: To configure servers we use a base image and install software at boot time using our server templates and RightScripts. This is way more modular and maintainable than baking entire servers into AMIs. Please see our blog post on the <a href="http://www.rightscale.com/blog/2007/08/07/configuring-servers-with-rightscripts/" title="Configuring Servers with RightScripts">rationale</a> behind this. As a result, we produce base images that are small yet have all the software utilities one needs in EC2 already installed, from the Amazon EC2 tools to traceroute, curl, wget, etc. The second innovation we made with our images is that they are fully scripted, and we publish the script. You can launch Amazon's FC4 or FC6 image (well, for the Ubuntu RightImage you need to start with some Ubuntu instance), run our script, and out pops a clone of our RightImage. So if you want to see what we install or make some changes you can go right ahead.</p><hr><h3>Archived Comments</h3><p><b>James</b> Hi, I just used your image, made some changes, installed some more packages and bundled it. Somehow after initializing the image I cant connect through SSH. Its weird because yours comes with SSH bundled and started. Why cant I connect to my image then? thanks in advance.</p><p><b>Thorsten</b> James, I’m pretty sure we tested rebundling the image, but I’ll double-check. Are you sure you have port 22 open and that you’re using the right SSH key? There is a boot script that installs the SSH key, so be sure you didn’t somehow disable that.</p><p><b>James</b> Hi. I keep stuck in the same issue. Well, I’ll describe my process: I ran your instance, made some package and gem installs, copied my pk and cert to /mnt, issued the following command: ec2-bundle-vol -d /mnt -k /mnt/pk-2JSD7JYO2MTK3C3H5ATIM356KE4VYKOU.pem -c /mnt/cert-2JSD7JYO2MTK3C3H5ATIM356KE4VYKOU.pem -u 782731552053 -s 1536 -r i386 uploaded it to s3: ec2-upload-bundle -b ubuntu_final -m /mnt/image.manifest.xml -a -s registered it: ec2-register ubuntu_final/image.manifest.xml run it: ec2-run-instances ami-ccd633a5 -k test-keypair … and after that the instance is online with their public and internal hostname. I cant ssh to it nor get a ping reply, so I checked with: ec2-get-console-output i-809662e9 and I got some strange output: <a href="http://pastie.caboo.se/121164" target="_blank">http://pastie.caboo.se/121164</a> Thank you</p><p><b>Thorsten</b> James, I now get the same error you do. Seems to have something to do with the new AMI tools released by Amazon. Sigh. We hope to have a fix released asap.</p> </div></div></div>Wed, 07 Nov 2007 21:42:02 +0000Thorsten von Eicken14 at http://www.rightscale.com/bloghttp://www.rightscale.com/blog/rightscale-news/ubuntu-704-amazon-ec2-image-release#comments